The Wildland Firefighter Foundation rededicated the statue at the Boise Airport Friday, returning it from Arizona where it was taken when 19 firefighters died there in 2013.
Jack Wilson, the man who came up with the idea of bringing together all of the wildland firefighting agencies in coordinated management in the 1970s, made the point that the statue is not just to commemorate the fallen.
“We dedicate this statue to all firefighters,” said Wilson, 96. “May God bless them all.”
